"There are clear benefits to EHRs. You have to be willing to sacrifice some things to get them, like privacy or potential breaches or stolen identities etc etc etc to get them. That's just the way it is."

That is an incredible authoritarian claim that simply won't pass scrutiny with the general public, and I think you know it.

You so easily discount the danger of data breaches, yet if one's medical identity is stolen, the thieves have been known to imperceptively alter allergies and other information in order to use the victim's insurance. That danger simply does not happen with paper records.

When you view the wall of shame, many breaches are the result of stolen or lost laptops. Some HIPAA breaches are paper-based. It's imperative that healthcare organizations, as a whole, do a better job of securing patient records, no matter where they reside.

Yes, again, I said this exactly in my previous post, people should get themselves informed and chose for themselves. I stated that very clearly in fact.

I don't get what you are saying. Are you saying there should be no EHRs then?

Do you want better security? Don't we all? Don't think anyone is going to argue that point.

It's an imperfect world. If you wait until things are perfect well...you're going to lose out.

There are clear benefits to EHRs. You have to be willing to sacrifice some things to get them, like privacy or potential breaches or stolen identities etc etc etc to get them. That's just the way it is.

Ponemon estimates that over 90% of healthcare organizations have experienced at least one reportable data breach in the last two years. Also according to Ponemon, stolen medical identities bring $50 each on the black market while financial identities only bring $5 each.

As InformationWeek Government readers were busy firming up their fiscal year 2015 budgets, we asked them to rate more than 30 IT initiatives in terms of importance and current leadership focus. No surprise, among more than 30 options, security is No. 1. After that, things get less predictable.